Twitter celebrates 10 years of using the Hashtag code

Twitter celebrates the 10th anniversary of the use of Hashtag for the first time through the social networking site, by monitoring some of the most distinctive uses of the world's most famous digital icon, which can not be dispensed through the site of mini-tweets.

According to the British Metros website, Chris Messina, a Google engineer and former Ober, used the code for the first time as a way to identify or classify the tweet on August 23, 2007, when he suggested using the icon to create group messages.

"How do you feel about using # groups?"

Since then, Hashtag has grown to become one of the most widely used icons, spread across various social platforms and the Internet.

A number of social movements and news events have emerged through the use of social networking.

It has had a significant impact on supporting victims in the wake of a number of incidents, including # jesuischarlie following the attack on the sarcastic Charlie Abbou magazine and # PutYourBatsOut in honor of the late Australian cricket player Philip Hughes.

According to Twitter, the most popular hijacker in 2007 was # noticias , the Spanish word for news, which was re-shared about 9,000 times. In contrast, the biggest hatchage in 2017 used more than 300 million times